The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA), in partnership with ARA Group, have announced the longlist for this year’s inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize is now worth $60,000. The overall prize winner will receive $50,000, with an additional $5,000 to be awarded to each of the remaining two shortlisted authors.
The 2020 longlisted titles and authors are: Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas (Allen & Unwin Australia); Master of My Fate by Sienna Brown (Penguin Books Australia); Bodies of Men by Nigel Featherstone (Hachette Australia); The Yield by Tara June Winch (Penguin Books Australia); Shepherd by Catherine Jinks (Text Publishing); Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe (University of Queensland Press); The Electric Hotel by Dominic Smith (Allen & Unwin Australia), and The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (Affirm Press).
